The popular, free to use Splash Park on Ryde’s esplanade had fallen on hard times.
Closed last year due to the Covid pandemic and with obsolete pumps and pipework, it was in a rather sorry state until local businessman, Dominic Gentleman, Director of Island-based cleaning business NewGents Ltd organised a free clean for this ageing facility.
In a great gesture
from other local businesses Harvey’s Waste Clearance removed thirty
sacks of rubbish collected by the Newgents team at no charge and the
Alamo Restaurant on Ryde’s Esplanade delivered a free lunch to the
hungry workers. A real community effort well timed for Volunteers
Week!
The trustees who have operated the Splash Park each summer since 2014, as part of Waterside Community Trust, are hugely grateful to all the businesses involved in the clean up.
Get the water flowing
Now all that remains is for the Trust, the charity which also operates Ryde’s seafront swimming pool, to try to get the creaking and ageing pumps and pipes to work for another season after the prolonged Covid shut down.
It is hoped that a survey will be undertaken soon.
Fun in the sun
Anecdotally as soon as NewGents had left so a local family moved in and agreed to be photographed, children playing happily in the dry pond.
Shared by Keith Gentlemen on behalf of Mark Haslam and Andre Kurowski, joint chairs of Waterside Community Trust. Ed
